Professor LePeu arranges for his class to take their French 100 midterm exam in the classroom where they learned the material in the first place,because he has read that this will improve his students' retrieval of information,a phenomenon known as ____.
A) semantic memory networking
B) encoding specificity
C) context specific memory
D) state dependent memory

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Context specific memory refers to the phenomenon where information is better remembered in the same context or environment in which it was learned. In this case, taking the exam in the same classroom where the material was learned would provide a similar context and potentially improve the students' ability to retrieve the information. The other options, such as semantic memory networking and state dependent memory, refer to different mechanisms of memory retrieval that are not as relevant to this situation.

Professor LePeu Arranges for His Class to Take Their French